Pandiyan v. The State Of Tamilnadu Rep By

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED 04.02.2016

CORAM

THE HONOURABLE DR.JUSTICE S.TAMILVANAN AND THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE D.HARIPARANTHAMAN H.C.P. No.2115 of 2015 Pandiyan ... Petitioner -v1.The State of Tamil Nadu, rep. by its Secretary to Government, Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Fort St. George, Chennai-600 009.

2.The District Collector and District Magistrate, Thiruvannamalai District, Thiruvannamalai.

... Respondents Habeas Corpus Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying for the issuance of a Writ of Habeas Corpus calling for the records of the detention made in D.O.No.46/2015 C-2 dated 15.08.2015 passed by the District Collector and District Magistrate, Thiruvannamalai District, Thiruvannamalai, the second respondent herein and set aside the same and direct the respondents to produce the detenue before this Court and set the detenue Bhagyalakshmi, wife of Pandiyan, aged 39 years, now confined in Special Prison for Women, Vellore at liberty.

For Petitioner :

Mr.R.Balakrishnan For Respondents:

Mr.A.N.Thambidurai Additional Public Prosecutor

O R D E R

(Order of the Court was made by S.TAMILVANAN,J.) The petitioner, who is the husband of the detenue Bhagyalakshmi, wife of Pandiyan, aged 39 years, has come forward with this petition challenging the detention order in D.O.No.46/2015 C-2 dated 15.08.2015 passed by the second

respondent against his wife branding her as a "Bootlegger" under the Tamil Nadu Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Bootleggers, Drug Offenders, Forest Offenders, Goondas, Immoral Traffic Offenders, Sand Offenders, Slum Grabbers and Video Pirates Act, 1982 [Tamil Nadu Act 14 of 1982]. 2.The learned Additional Public Prosecutor would submit that the order of detention passed by the second respondent as against the wife of the petitioner dated 15.08.2015 has been revoked by the Government in G.O. [Rt] No.6341, Home, Prohibition & Excise [XI] Department dated 08.10.2015 and he has also produced a copy of the said order.

3. Recording the submission of the learned Additional Public Prosecutor, this petition is closed as the same has become infructuous.

-s/dAssistant Registrar True Copy Sub-Assistant Registrar vga To 1.The Secretary to Government, Government of Tamil Nadu Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Fort St. George, Chennai-600 009.

2.The District Collector and District Magistrate, Thiruvannamalai District, Thiruvannamalai.

3.The Joint Secretary to Government Public Law and Order Fort St.George, Chennai-9 4.The Superintendent of Special Prison for Women, Vellore.

5.The Public Prosecutor, High Court of Madras, Chennai 600 104.

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